"The way Chelsea won a game of football last weekend was a complete and utter disgrace," said Whelan, as reported by the Daily Star.

"Jose Mourinho used the phrase ‘parking the bus’. I wouldn’t mind if that was all they did. To defend well is perfectly acceptable.

"After that performance, Mourinho should never criticise another manager again.

"He was a disgrace and so was his team."

“It is the rest of it that I have a problem with – the time-wasting, players falling over and staying down when there was nothing wrong with them, the constant practice of four or five Chelsea players surrounding the referee every time a decision went against them.